TY - JOUR
T1 - Valorization of biomass to hydroxymethylfurfural, levulinic acid, and fatty acid methyl ester by heterogeneous catalysts
AU - Chen, Season S.
AU - Maneerung, Thawatchai
AU - Tsang, Daniel C.W.
AU - Ok, Yong Sik
AU - Wang, Chi Hwa
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was supported by Hong Kong Environmental and Conservation Fund [K-ZB78, 2016] and Hong Kong International Airport Environmental Fund [K-ZJKC, 2015].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Biomass conversion to value-added chemicals and fuels over heterogeneous catalysts is one of the top issues in green chemistry. This review focuses on recent advances in the application of solid catalysts for producing three prominent bio-based chemicals, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), levulinic acid (LA) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) from biomass materials, respectively. Our work highlights the perspectives and challenges during the conversion of actual biomass, including the impact of complex constituents and impurities of biomass on the solid catalysts, mass transfer limitation in the reactions, and the stability and deactivation of the solid catalysts. Transformation of solid catalysts from research to industrialization necessitates future work on identification of interactions between the catalysts and actual biomass, and comprehensive evaluation of the suitability of the catalysts in the reaction systems.
AB - Biomass conversion to value-added chemicals and fuels over heterogeneous catalysts is one of the top issues in green chemistry. This review focuses on recent advances in the application of solid catalysts for producing three prominent bio-based chemicals, hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), levulinic acid (LA) and fatty acid methyl ester (FAME) from biomass materials, respectively. Our work highlights the perspectives and challenges during the conversion of actual biomass, including the impact of complex constituents and impurities of biomass on the solid catalysts, mass transfer limitation in the reactions, and the stability and deactivation of the solid catalysts. Transformation of solid catalysts from research to industrialization necessitates future work on identification of interactions between the catalysts and actual biomass, and comprehensive evaluation of the suitability of the catalysts in the reaction systems.
KW - Biomass valorization
KW - Biorefinery
KW - Fatty acid methyl ester (FAME)
KW - Hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF)
KW - Levulinic acid (LA)
KW - Solid catalyst
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cej.2017.07.020
DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2017.07.020
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85029511030
SN - 1385-8947
VL - 328
SP - 246
EP - 273
JO - Chemical Engineering Journal
JF - Chemical Engineering Journal
ER -